…Digg doesn’t like Bad Behavior?

Sometimes it just helps to search!

Recently, I was alerted to a problem with DYH and Digg. Whenever a post was submitted to Digg, the user was greeted with the following message instead of the usual Digg verbage:

This link does not appear to be a working link. Please check the URL and try again.

A quick Google of [Digg + ”This link does not appear to be a working link. Please check the URL and try again.”] turned up this page, which indicated the fact that this issue was due to an incompatibility between Digg and the Bad Behavior plugin.

Since I’m a huge fan of the Bad Behavior plugin and what it’s done to eliminate the spam that this site was seeing, I was reluctant to just remove it.

Thankfully, there’s a workaround, though it gets into php code, so it’s a bit messy for Wordpress beginners. However, if you use the Bad Behavior plugin on your own site, and want Digg to Digg, then do the following:

1. Open up the Bad Behavior plugin folder
2. Open up the Bad Behavior subfolder
3. Open a file called “whitelist.inc.php” in a text editor
4. Find the following text:
   // Includes four examples of whitelisting by IP address and netblock.
   $bb2_whitelist_ip_ranges = array(
   “10.0.0.0/8″,
   “172.16.0.0/12″,
   “192.168.0.0/16″,
   // “127.0.0.1″,
   );
5. Add Digg’s crawler address (64.191.203.34) as follows:
   // Includes four examples of whitelisting by IP address and netblock.
   $bb2_whitelist_ip_ranges = array(
   “10.0.0.0/8″,
   “172.16.0.0/12″,
   “192.168.0.0/16″,
   “64.191.203.34″,
   // “127.0.0.1″,
   );
6. Save, and re-upload the “whitelist.inc.php” file

Moral of the story: Almost any problem can be solved with a little bit of Google.

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